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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

TITLE

Robert Motherwell Archive: Audio/Visual Recordings

CREATOR

Robert Motherwell and his studio, and the Dedalus Foundation

DATE

1972-2004

EXTENT

6.25 linear feet of records.

REPOSITORY

Dedalus Foundation, Inc.
555 W. 57th Street, Suite 1222
New York, NY 10019

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

PROCESSING INFORMATION

Processed 2004 by Gretchen Opie.

OWNERSHIP AND LITERARY RIGHTS

Written permission must be obtained in order to reproduce any item from the Dedalus Foundation Archives. Additionally, permission to reproduce materials for which the Dedalus Foundation does not own copyright must be obtained from the copyright holder.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains more than 70 recordings of interviews, conferences, lectures, documentary films and television programs that relate to Motherwell.

ARRANGEMENT

The group is arranged in 2 series:
I: Audio Recordings
II: Visual Recordings

CONTAINER LIST

I: AUDIO RECORDINGS

Folder # Folder Name Date

I.01 Mass Culture and Modern Art #5
S. Hunter, W. Seitz, P. Guston, Museum of Modern Art
1 Stenorette magnetic tape, 1 copy 		1946
I.02 Mass Culture and Modern Art #6
P. Guston, T. Hess, H. Rosenberg, Museum of Modern Art
1 Stenorette magnetic tape, 1 copy 		1946
I.03 Ollendorf Warehouse / tape 1,
1 audiocassette 		n.d.
I.04 Interview with RM about materials used in work
Betty Fiske and Rita Albertson
1 audiocassette 		1980
I.05 Sweet Surrender After Motherwell: 1965
David John Olsen [music created in response to the Lyric Suite]
1 audiocassette 		1982
I.06 Robert Motherwell and Dore Ashton in conversation at Cooper Union
2 audiocassettes 		1988
I.07 Trio: Shining Forth
Andrew Toovey [music created in response to RM's work]
1 audiocassette 		1988
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I: VISUAL RECORDINGS

Folder # Folder Name Date

II.01 Painter's Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape 		1972
II.02 Motherwell
Michael Blackwood Productions
1 VHS tape
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape 		1973
II.03 Two broadcasts from CBS-TV's Sunday Morning
"Robert Motherwell"
"Tyler Graphics Printing", 1985
2 VHS copies and 1 master broadcast videocassette
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape 		1981
II.04 "Robert Motherwell at the Boston Atheneum"
WGBH
1 VHS tape 		1987
II.05 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tapes 2B, 3A, 3B)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy)
Emile de Antonio, Mystic Fire Video
1 VHS tape 		1987
II.06 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tapes 4A, 4B)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy) 		1987
II.07 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tape 3A)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy) 		1987
II.08 Conversations with Robert Motherwell" (Tapes 4A, 4B)
with Jack Flam, Sigmund Koch at the Boston University Aesthetics Research Archive
2 VHS tapes (1 original, 1 copy) 		1987
II.09 A Dialogue on the Subject of Modernishm: Robert Motherwell and Arthur C. Danto" part 1 of
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
1 VHS tape 		1988
II.10 A Dialogue on the Subject of Modernishm: Robert Motherwell and Arthur C. Danto"
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
1 VHS tape 		1987
II.11 Excerpts from "A Dialogue on the Subject of Modernishm: Robert Motherwell and Arthur C. Danto"
1 VHS tape 		1987
II.12 L'Atelier de Robert Motherwell
Benoit Jacquot, I.N.A.
3 VHS tapes 		1988
II.13 Motherwell/Alberti: A la Pintura
Michael Blackwood Productions
4 VHS tapes and 1 35mm film (with note on canister that says it is on the reel backwards) 		1989
II.14 Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel
International Cultural Programming
6 VHS tapes 		1990
II.15 The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
1 VHS tape 		1991
II.16 The Exiles
1 VHS tape 		1993
II.17 Robert Motherwell, Summer of 1971
Michael Blackwood Productions
2 VHS tapes 		1991
II.18 New York School
Michael Blackwood Productions
1 VHS tape 		2000
II.19 Rothko and Repetition
Briony Fer, Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture
1 VHS tape 		2001
II.20 Rothko and the Critics
Michael, Leja, Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture
1 VHS tape 		2001
II.21 Coming to Light: Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko, Provincetown Summers
Keith Rodan, Knoedler & Co.
1 VHS tape 		2002
II.22 Ollendorf and RM Studio
1 VHS tape 		n.d.
II.23 Artitude II - Ken Tyler Episode 15: Printmakingbr> LaSalle College of the Arts
1 VHS tape 		n.d.